Mission 90 Days

Major Ravi is a terrible director. And this time he's got some filmmaker friends who are terrible at their jobs: cinematographer, writer, musician and editor.

The cast is okay, but their performance is so shabby and cringe-worthy it made me feel nauseous. Their dialogs were not only inappropriate but also immensely wrong. And when you use English language, you ought to deliver it with a finesse. But the characters in here speak English worse than 2-year old kids and seeing Mammootty giving such a bad performance equaled a nightmare.

The story is cooked up on basis of lack of research. Now they have got some plot points right, but fictionalizing the plot and inculcating drama and bureaucratic claptrap into it is the last thing a viewer wants to watch. And professional commandos wearing gold chain watches and setting the time in it is just the film element I cannot bear. Editing is the biggest blunder. Use of VFX is bad, too.

There is not a single factor worth considering except that fine actress. She, being a North-Indian, spoke better.

BOTTOM LINE: Simply absurd and unenterprising. Skip! Not recommended at all. Read a book, instead!

There is no question about Major Ravi' s Filming Skill. 1. Mission 90 days stands as an average movie not just because of its screen play. We all know the fact that the commandoes were not able to catch the culprit alive ...that's history. When it films, Major Ravi cannot make his own climax different from the historical facts. 2. Lots of very complicated investigation happened between 21st May and 20th August 1991. When these sequence of events are constrained into a two hours movies the public can't easily get the connection of events. 3. The audience may not be knowing the historical facts such as conflict between Sinhales and Tamil, Evolution of LTTE, Purpose of IPKF etc. ( Major Ravi could have made a briefing of it as a voice over somewhere in the beginning of the movie .

Meanwhile let me also mention certain shortcoming of this film.

1. Certain unwanted lengthy scenes such as Major Sivaram coming to his family, his association with his family and local friend ( Salim Kumar ) , a song etc ...all these are just time consuming . More focus can be given to investigation sequence especially the role of Ranganathan and Mrithula who were the key elements that lead to the culprits. But while filming a very short screen play is made on this particular incident . 2. Confronting with a lady journalist with a mass dialogue is again a repetation in Major Ravi' s movies. 3. Again, where are these cammandoes moviing in a hurry when the movie ends...it's repetation and boring.

Mission 90 Days like Major Ravi's first film Keerthichakra, is a story taken from the real life and giving a very vivid vision to the community. I really appreciate this. But both the movies especially Mission 90 Days has a lot of drawbacks. Evaluating both this movies I feel Major Ravi is not a good screen play writer but has a lot of experiences. I would like to see more films from him. But a suggestion from my side is that Major Ravi should avoid writing the screen play but give it to some screenplay experts. He will write it based on Major Ravi's experiences in life. I feel this will sharpen the edges of his movies.